The conversation took place when Trump called Moon at his home in Seoul's Hongeun neighborhood to congratulate him on his election victory.
South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in broke eight months of top-level silence between Seoul and Beijing today, placing a phone call to Xi Jinping that offered an emerging glimpse of his North Korea strategy. Moon also expressed hopes the two countries would be able to cooperate in developing East Asia, including extending a natural gas pipeline from Siberia to South Korea, the Blue House said.
"President Moon said the Thaad issue can be resolved when there is no further provocation by North Korea, " Mr Yoon said.
Top on the agenda will likely be their different approaches to the North Korea problem and the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile system.
Stangarone also added that whatever worldwide plans Moon has, the economic situation in South Korea and the fact that he was elected following an impeachment mean that domestic issues will constrain what he wants to do.
China was willing to keep working hard with all parties, including South Korea, for the peace and prosperity of the Korean peninsula, Xi said.
Discord can happen, as conservative United States news media reported, if Moon pushes for cooperation and exchanges with North Korea, going against the worldwide community's efforts to tighten sanctions on it.
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Suga only said Abe told Moon that the agreement should be "appropriately managed", but did not elaborate. Moon accepted the invitation at an "early date" but no specific time was set, according to a statement.
Moon told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe most South Koreans rejected Tokyo's agreement to compensate victims of sexual slavery during the 1910-45 colonial era, implying he could scrap the contentious deal reached with Park's government at the end of 2015.
The military might of the South Korean ally is unrivaled and its influence on South Korea is overwhelming in many respects.
Yoon added, however, that Moon asserted the "need for the two countries to work together and wisely overcome historical disputes".
The North has staged two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the start of past year in its quest to develop a way to deliver a nuclear warhead to "imperialist enemy" the US. At the time, the deal was supposed to be an "irreversible" solution to the so-called comfort women issue that has dogged relations between the countries for decades.
However, this might dent relationships with Washington, South Korea's strongest security partner. He asked them to help in curbing North Korea's nuclear programme and both promised to.
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